1THE IDEAS MEN
Simon Lavington
SCIENCE AT WAR
The momentous events of the Second World War saw countless acts of bravery and sacrifice on the part of those caught up in the conflict. Rather less perilously, large numbers of mathematicians, scientists and engineers found themselves drafted to government research establishments where they worked on secret projects that also contributed to the Allied war effort. This book is about the people who took the ideas and challenges of wartime research and applied them to the new and exciting field of electronic digital computer design. It is a complex story, since the modern computer did not spring from the efforts of one single inventor or one single laboratory. In this chapter we give an overall sense ...
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